Though San Francisco president of baseball operations Buster Posey urges persistence with Willy Adames, the slumping Giants shortstop should be a cause for concern.
Adames, who signed a seven-year, $182M contract as a free agent in the offseason, is just hitting .208 with 5 dwelling runs and 25 RBI in 56 video games via Thursday. In 2024 with the Milwaukee Brewers, he batted .251 with 32 dwelling runs and had a career-high 112 RBI.
“It is not unusual when celebrity gamers signal a giant deal and wrestle out of the gate,” Posey mentioned Thursday on KNBR’s “Murph & Markus” show, “We noticed it with [Philadelphia’s] Trea Turner, we noticed it with Francisco Lindor [of the New York Mets]. You might be seeing to an extent with [the Mets’] Juan Soto this 12 months. So be affected person. … Willy is a dude.”
Persistence, nonetheless, might quickly put on skinny for the power-needy Giants, who’re in third place, three video games again of first-place Los Angeles. San Francisco is coming off getting swept by the first-place Detroit Tigers in a three-game collection and heads right into a weekend collection on the highway towards the Miami Marlins.
Adames has 11 multi-hit video games for the Giants, however he is solely 2-for-17 (each singles) in his previous 5 video games. The Giants are 19th in Major League Baseball with 55 home runs.
If Adames’ hunch deepens, even perhaps Posey will grow to be involved.
